libvirt
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5recommend
2warn against
Nov 12, 2025first mention
Jul 18, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I still think libvirt is a lower entry cost”
“I use libvirt, vfio pci passthrough, evdev and some other stuff and have been smoothly VM gaming for a few years.”
Arch Linux useron “I am giving up on VM Gaming”
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“I've been using it at home for years and years with libvirt”
Caveats and dissent
“the libvirt documentation of how to take qemu snapshots was amazingly fragmented, inconsistent and out of date”
“VM with vm-bhyve is simpler than libvirt and no XML to deal with.”
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All comments 12
“using libvirt to give claude its own graphical desktop env”
“I still think libvirt is a lower entry cost”
“I use libvirt, vfio pci passthrough, evdev and some other stuff and have been smoothly VM gaming for a few years.”
“libvirt/qemu based VM”
“the libvirt documentation of how to take qemu snapshots was amazingly fragmented, inconsistent and out of date”
“Proxmox and/or libvirt”
“It hooks into libvirt for this”
That's why I love Incus. It offers all three so you don't have to choose. OCI app containers, LXC containers and KVM.
“I've been using it at home for years and years with libvirt”
“My libvirt setup does this right now”
“stuff like this is pretty easy to setup”
“VM with vm-bhyve is simpler than libvirt and no XML to deal with.”